Looking Forward Rather Than Around

Before the sun rose this morning, A Futile And Stupid Gesture was playing on the television.

The coffee was strong, the dogs were sleeping and the weather people had completely botched the forecast of “a dusting at most” with the arrival of several inches of fresh powder.

Laura packed up and headed to work and as we hugged, I blurted out, “movies like this remind me that I’m not a complete fuck up.”

We shared a laugh and she left for the day. Schools are delayed by two hours since the guesse...